Word: skeezix
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Died. Frank King, 86, cartoonist, creator of the classic comic strip Gasoline Alley; of a heart attack; in Winter Park, Fla. In 1918, King invented Walt Wallet and his auto-buff cronies (later including Skeezix, Phyllis Blossom and many others) as part of a page of drawings for the Chicago Tribune; within a year Gasoline Alley was popular enough to run as a separate feature, recording the trials and triumphs of the Wallet family in what was once called "a quiet, faithful, tender picture of suburban America...
...World. Once established on a paper, the astrological column characteristically tends to become a tenacious habit, like Skeezix or Smilin' Jack. The editor would often like to kick the habit, but his star-struck readers, 80% of them wom en, usually won't let him. Some years ago, the Chicago Daily News inadvertently dropped its canned horoscope. "The reaction was the most tremendous I've ever seen," said Feature Editor John Carey, who hastily reinstated the stars...